Music-recording and automatic playing device for organs and like instruments.



A. ZOLLINGER.

MUSIC RECORDING AND AUTOMATIC PLAYING DEVICE FOR ORGANS AND LIKE INSTRUMENTS. APPLICATION TILED JULY 22.1910.

1,004,839, Patented 001. 3, 1911.

UNI ED sTATEs PAT Nr OFFI E;

ADALBERT ZQLLINGER, OF LEIPZIG-EUTRITZSCH, GERMANY ASSIGN 'O R TO FIB/M OF POPPER & (30., OF

LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

MUSIC-RECORDING AND AUTOMATIC PLAYING DEVICE FOR ORGANS AND LIKE INSTRUMENTS.

1,004,839. Specification of I.

Application filed J'u1y'22, 1 910. I Serial No. 573,188.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ADALBERT ZOLLINGER,' a subject of the Grand Duke of Baden, residing at Leipzig-Eutritzsch, in Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Blush-Recording and Automatic Playing Devices for Organs and Like Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention to provide means whereby music manually played on an organ or like instrument with the aid of all the stops, couplings and other auxiliary devices with which such instrument is provided is automatically reeorded on a music sheet and can then be automatieally played on the same instrument with the aid of said sheet.

The invention-is illustrated in the annexed drawings as applied to an organ of known type wherein the motor pneumaties controlling the valves of the organ pipe are arranged in so-called registeechambers, to which compressed air is admit-ted while the. pneumatics are contracted by suction.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of the playing and recording mechanisn'l partly in section and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of part of the wind-chestwith pipes thereon, the top board and pipes having been removed.

The organ pipes. l are arranged in rows upon the wind chest 1, which is divided by partitions Q'intp, register chambers R R etc. Each row of pipes parallel with the plane of the drawing has an air channel S. and each pipe has a valve 3 which is opened and closed by means of a mot-or pneumatic or bcllows 41-. the valves 3 being opened by collapse of the pneumatics when the air is sucked from the latter through ports 4 into the channel S. i

The chanuels S are normally closed against the. exhaustion of air therefrom. by means of valves 9. but such valves may be opened to connect the channtls with a suction chamber S), by the admission of atmospheric air into a'chamber 9 beneath a, diaphragm or membrane 9 with which the valves 9 are individually connected. The valves 8 are in turn connected to membranes 8" which constitute movable walls of chametters P tent. Patented Oct. 3,

bers 8, and the latter said chamberswonnect with the upper ends of a plurality of pipes or conduits 7. chamber S from a pipe 7 causes the valve 8 to open 'to admit atmospheric air to a chamber 9, the effect of which is to lift the membrane 5)" and to open the valve .9 so as to open the suction box 9 to the selected.

channel S.

Attheir lower ends the conduits or pipes are connected with ducts 7, which can be opened to the atmosphere by means of valves 5 operated by the manual keys 5, and they are also provided wit-lrbranches 7 which Admission of air to a Each register chamber It has an opening" o normally closed by a valve 9. This valve Dis actuated by means of a pneumatic l0 and is opened when the pncumatic 10 is evacuated and collapses. The valves 9 and the pneumatics 10 are located in chambers 10 containingcompressed air. For sounding oneof the organ pipes, not only is the respective'valve 3 opened and also the valve- 9 of the respective register chan'iber R.

The valves 9 and pneun'iatitslO areactuated by the following arrangement. register-push 11 is connected by a. rod 12, bell-crank 12 and rod 12" to a valve 13, which, when open admits atmospheric air to a chamber 14 below a membrane i l, which divides said chan'iber 14 from a chamber 14 containing attenuated air. The membrane 14 lifts a valve '15 normally de- 'n'essed by compressed air in a wind-chest 15". Lifted by the membrane 14 through the, valve chamber 15 the valve 15 closes a port 1? and cuts oil the flow of compressed air toa pipe 16,which leads to oneoi? the pnemnatics 10. The latter thereupon collapses, dischargingits air through pipe 16 and port 14 into the suction chamber 14.".

Each of the chambers 14 is likewise providedwith a pipe or conduit/26 which leads to the tracker board 6, 1n the same manner as above described in connection with the beredthat; while sthere; is a; pipe or i-conduit Zffor. each noteftobe pnyammm. number of the pipes or conduits 26 is limited bythe played. v i

For manual playing the required registernumber of ,registel chambers R? 1R etc-. em-

v tracker board the perforations in the sheet pushor stop 11 is manipulated, one or more'being pulled out as maybe desired, and thereafter the manual keys 5 are de-' pressed in the usual manner. The operation-of the proper pneumatic or neumatics 10 to open the required valve or valves 9 so as to select the series or row or rows of pipes, 1 to be played is effected by the manipulation of the stop or stops 11 as aforesaid,

while thereafter the depression of'a key 9 which is pto ,be

taneously intoregister with two openings 1n the tracker board for each sound to be pro? duced, one 0 operate a pneumatic l0 and so to select the seriesjof pipes represented by the register'chambers, and the ,otherto op- I crate apneumatic 4 and so to select the inoral register chambers.

dividual pipe in such series. Of course several pipes communicating with a'siugle, register chamber R may be s multanenusly sounded, as may corresponding pipes in sevllleans will now bedescribed' forirecording the sounded noteson asheet 17 which .is continuously fed across a bar 18., against the. rounded under'surface of which it 1s stretched. The air-channels Scomnuin'h cate by means of :pipes 19 19 etc. with neumatics 20 20 etc. and the pneumaties 10 communicate by means of pipes 21 21 etc. with pneumatics 22 22 etc. The series-of pneumatics 20 and. 22 may; be arranged in separate rows, instead of alternating with each other under the .gbox 23, as shown in the drawing. Toleach Ioithe pneumatics-20, 22 there is connected 'style. 24 having verticatmovement in a 618 24 111 a board 24: positioned below .bar 18, sothat when either of the saida mark or impression thereon.

/ ;At the sounding of each of the pipes 1, one of the Pneumatics 20 and one of the pneumatics 22 are operated so that each "note produces two'marks or impression on lthe ,sheet- 17.. If two or more pipesl, commu 'iicatlng with, a single register chamber R, are simultaneously sounded, an equal number of pneumatics 2t) and' one pneu matic..=22. are collapsed. By this means a record is obtained of each pipe sounded, with a record or the'register to which it belongs.

a s is For reproducing the music, the sheet 17,

r'marked' as described," is; perforated where markedf-a'nd then fedas at 25, across the tracker board 6, as previously explained. 9 During the travel'of the sheet 25 over the open the pipes 7 and 26 to atmosphere, so

that pneumatics i and 10 are operated in ;'connection to the neumatics 10.

What I claim as my. invention and ldes'ire :to secure by Letters Patent; ofthellnitcd 1 1. In an organ or like instrument the combination, with a plurality of sounding elements grouped to make, longitudinal "and transversmseries, of register chambers ,severallytserving said transverse series of sounding elements, valvesseverally control- 1 ling the communication between the individual sounding elements and theirrespective register -,.chambers,' pneumatic motors for said valves, air channels severally serving thelongitudinal series ofthe saigdpneumatic motors, a traveling, sheet. Supporting means, movable styles positioned .to fmark a sheet traveling on said supporting-means,

pneumatic motorspseverally connected to said styles, conduits severally connecting the register chambers to an equal number of said styleractuating,pneumatic motors, and conduits connecting said air-channels .to the other style-actuating pneumatic.mo-

tors, for the purpose setforth.

In an organ or like wind instrument the combination, with a plurality of soundingelements grouped to make :longitudinal and transverse series, of register-chambers severally serving said transverse series of sounding elements, valves severally control- "ling the communication between the iindividual sounding elements and their respective register; chambers, pneumatic "motors for said valves, air channels severally serx' ing the longitudinal series of the saidpneu- 'mati'c motors, a traveling-sheet-supporting means, movable styles positionedtoni'ark ashect traveling on said supporting-means, pneumatic motors severally connected to said styles, conduits severally connecting the register ohambers to an equal number ot; said style-actuating pneumatic" motors, condults connecting said air channels to the other style-actuating pneumatic motors, a series of valves severally controlling the as'sage of air through the register) chamere; aseries of valves severally] controlling the passage ofair through "alirfcham ncls,'pneu'matic devices for individually actuating the valves in the two last-named series, a tracker beard, manually controlled valves, and air conduits enabling the last named pneumatic actuating devices to he served With air alternatively from the tracker board and from the manually controlled valves.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ADALBERT ZOLLINGER. \Vitnesses v R [TDOLPII FRICKE, 1 ALBERT R. Momwn'rz. 

